Alastair Reynolds

Alastair Reynolds is a Welsh science fiction author who writes hard science fiction and space opera. He worked as a space scientist before turning to fiction, and his first stories appeared in the British magazine Interzone in the early 1990s. He is known for the Revelation Space books, beginning with Revelation Space and continuing through Redemption Ark and Absolution Gap, along with other novels such as House of Suns and Century Rain. He was born in Wales in 1966.